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Next for the war on the ground in afghanistan? retired colonel jack jacobs an msnbc analyst and "newsweek's" jonathan alter, author of "the promise." congratulations, jonathan. once again, you've scored a big one in your book "the promise." it's got all about the run-up to this with the fights between the president and general mcchrystal. it's a great look, by the way. anybody who wants to read a book at how we got to today read "the promise" by john. let me start with colonel jacobs on the ground over there in afghanistan. we were just debate is as we came out of the first part of the program...

2011, subject to review of conditions on the ground, but basic mix and petraeus said yes, sir. yes, mr. president, i agree. >> colonel, now that the dust has cleared and we have a new leader in afghanistan, let me ask you about the critique of this administration by mcchrystal and his team in the article in "rolling stone," which everybody is going to be reading now, oddly enough, after the removal of mcchrystal. anyway, the shot against the president for not being prepared in the initial meetings, not knowing who petraeus was. the shot generally calling jim jones, the national security advise...

Next for the war on the ground in afghanistan? retired colonel jack jacobs an msnbc analyst and "newsweek's" jonathan alter, author of "the promise." congratulations, jonathan. once again, you've scored a big one in your book "the promise." it's got all about the run-up to this with the fights between the president and general mcchrystal. it's a great look, by the way. anybody who wants to read a look at how we got to today read "the promise" by john. let me start with colonel jacobs on the ground over there in afghanistan. we were just debate is as we came out of the first part of the program...

I need some more flexibility, and if i were the taliban who is supposedly celebrating today at all the problems back here in washington, i wouldn't be celebrating too long, because actually petraeus is going to have more room to maneuver than mcchrystal did. >> yes. he potentially is a doug macarthur and you talked about grandeur, he's going to ask for more troops. >> you said doug macarthur was so big because he basically helped win the second world war. >> and now petraeus has that. >> has that kind of clout and grandeur. if he decides he disagrees with the policy inside also, he take on the...

Escalation, and obama wanted it to be much faster than petraeus. petraeus tried to hesitate and say, well, you know, it's different from iraq in this way and that way. we can't do it as fast, and obama said wait a minute. your last presentation was about how it's similar to iraq, and if it's not, we're not going to do this. we're not going to fight this war if you can't get us in fast and out fast. that's the policy. >> so petraeus buys into the idea we can as a country, the united states can largely move out of afghanistan in a year or so. does he buy into that? >> he does. >> what about the ...